In the wake of the Robert Dear shootings at a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado, the tendency from pro-choice writers has been to get the pro-life movement coming and going — on the one hand accusing pro-lifers of at least semi-deliberately fomenting violence, on the other accusing them of being inconsistent for abjuring the violence that their own premises seem (to pro-choice eyes) to inevitably justify.
Damon Linker’s latest column is a nice exemplar, offering both accusations wrapped together, albeit with what’s meant to be a more sympathetic tone than you hear from writers further to the left. Here’s how he begins:
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